The second part of the "Ultimate Introduction to Applescript" series, where Jesse illustrates the basic concepts of Applescript like commands, code blocks and variables.

Now that you've mastered the tell command, it's time to introduce some of the other AppleScript commands that you may encounter.Location commandThis command will allow you to open a specific ...

On the other hand, we’ve got AppleScript, which lets any user write a script to give commands to any scriptable program. So what would happen if we put them together? Any user would be able to write a ...

The "-batch" command allows a bunch of AppleScript commands to be batched up for later execution The "-read" command can be used to read from the keyboard into an AppleScript variable.

Donagrandi Software also built in four AppleScript commands that are also recordable, according to Richard Donagrandi of Donagrandi Software and an independent Mac software developer.

Code signing for AppleScript was first introduced as a terminal command in Mountain Lion but in Mavericks it is as simple as selecting the Developer ID certificate from the dropdown menu while ...

AppleScript dictionaries The good news about AppleScript is that lots and lots of apps support it ambitiously, and support dozens and dozens of unique AppleScript commands.

Guest Konrad Lawson returns to explain how a few simple tricks with AppleScript and Automator can simplify the batch processing of files and other time-consuming tasks.

The command-line osascript utility makes this an easy problem to solve. Osascript executes AppleScript commands from Terminal's command line and can run many of the same kinds of simple scripts ...

Here is a fun approach for automatically changing Safari's downloads folder to an external drive that uses AppleScript. If you like scripting on a Mac then this may be for you.